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flingmetothemoon · 2 months ago
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Headcanons - Halloween with Dracula's Daughter
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Inspired by @froggywritesstuff's Teddy Lobo Halloween headcanon post because I'm a Teddy/Marya shipper and decided the post is just incomplete without the other half of my OTP's complementary response. The reader in question will be gender neutral and up to interpretation, and my personal interpretation is a certain crackhead Lobo ofc. XD
I might add more headcanons later, just wanna get the basics done with during that time of the night
Fandom: Dracula's Daughter (1936)
Character: Marya Zaleska
Scenario: She spends Halloween night with you
Content warning: Not much other than mentions of blood bag drinking, physical fights and harming of humans in horror movies
Word count: Idk. Still an amature fanfic writer and learning as I go XD
Marya has mixed feelings about Halloween
On one side of the coin, she loves the concept of human mortals and monsters being in peace with each other and spending time as friends instead of engaging in wars with each other
Her favorite aspect of Halloween is trick-or-treating, where she gets say hello to the children and hand out candy
As a matter of fact, one of the traditions she and the fellow monsters like to participate in when she doesn't have tasks to do that relates to Castle Dracula is door-to-door treat giving. Depending on the season the fruits and vegetables grow in, monsters would go scavenging for those valuable edibles, find and collect honey, glaze carved bites in honey, harden them, collect them in a bowl carved melon or pumpkin and deliver them to a neighbor. Oftentimes before handing out the candied fruit, the neighbor would get a good scare before having a good laugh over the scare
Monsters essentially has been trick-or-treating before it became popular among mortals, usually as a way of maintaining virtuous traits such as kindness, generosity, hospitality and humor in spite of their monstrous appearance
But on the other side, Marya doesn't like how it seems that mortals are appreciating monsters, but all for the wrong reasons: By portraying them as demonized caricatures and using them as mere entertainment
She essentially views it as her kind’s equivalent of cultural appropriation
She also wonders why human mortals have to wait for one day of the year to spend good times with those different than them when they can try doing it any time and day
As a vampire, Marya wonders if her appearance and outfit is good enough to be considered an outfit to go out in. She only hopes that human mortals who pass by her assume she's merely in convincing makeup, not anything more than that
Being unable to see her own reflection on mirrors, Marya appreciates having you to do her hair and makeup
She can do her own claws though
Before going out to do anything, she makes sure she has a good big drink of a blood bag to avoid any potential thirst incidents later on
She would prefer the night to be a happy and peaceful one, but if you were to get into a fight and get a black eye or bloody nose in an interesting way to impress her or in response to anyone having any negative to say about her outfit, her vampirist instincts would kick in and she will get her sharp claws out and hiss the hell out of anyone who dares harm her loved one
Marya is good at decorating by crafting natural resources such as twigs, leaves, carved pumpkins, spider webs and skeleton bones
Another part of monster culture is foraging for edibles such as turnips, melons and pumpkins, decorating and/or carving faces, sucking it's flesh and seeds out, and trapping a fire wisp into it to light the inside like a lantern
How monsters prepare food in general is similar to how warrior cats do it (At least according to Bonefall)
Marya takes advantage of the night to show you how it's done
For her kind, most monsters carve and light jack-o-lanterns with a purpose of a warm light source that doesn't burn their flesh into crisp unlike the direct sun and to scare off potential threats, scaring them with the idea that jack-o-lanterns craved by monsters have concealed evil spirits that could unleash and haunt those who trespass their turfs with a purpose of killing them
She doesn't really mind where are you take her to, she'll even agree to go to a party to meet up with new people
After a while however, she remembers she has sensitive hearing and loud, crowded parties gets a little too much for her and she wants to go somewhere more remote and quieter
Scary movies mostly confuse Marya, particularly because she doesn't understand why human mortals derive pleasure out of making entertainment of their kind getting their limbs torn apart by bigger and stronger monsters
What Marya is ultimately interested in spending Halloween night is patrolling around the city, knowing that any monsters lurking nearby the human area could take advantage of a holiday centering around them and actually inflict harm on the weaker, innocent ones
The long night ends with Marya requiring cuddling, lovemaking and playing with long hair (she's been so utterly touch starved for decades so ofc she would)
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theillusionofpants · 1 year ago
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So I am teaching monster culture to a group of my seniors in preparation for reading Frankenstein (how do I underline on mobile?). The text we are reading is an academic one and typical of college level, but jarring and difficult for high school. I prepped them by telling them that their goal wasn't to understand everything, and I fully expected them not to understand the whole thing, but to pick out parts that they thought important or to vocalize the questions they have so that they exist in the world. These kids, who u have known for all of four days put their whole ass into this. It took them twice as long as I originally thought but they were focused and confused and trudged along.
When they were done, before we got to their analysis, I said something like this:
" You know before we get into it, I just want to say that during this process, there was a time when I looked around the room and you all were reading this very difficult text. Your heads were down, you were asking each other questions, you were engaged. We have known each other for less than a week and I just want to say it shows a lot of trust that you didn't immediately give up on the text, so thank you"
The little smiles on their faces when they realized that they actually HAD been engaged in this difficult task mixed with the understanding that I saw them do it and appreciated it is gonna keep me running for a bit. Sometimes my job is fucking great.
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diaryofaphilosopher · 5 months ago
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"The shift from the Afro-Caribbean zombie to the U.S. zombie is clear: in Caribbean folklore, people are scared of becoming zombies, whereas in U.S. narratives people are scared of zombies. This shift is significant because it maps the movement from the zombie as victim (Caribbean) to the zombie as an aggressive and terrifying monster who consumes human flesh (U.S.). In Haitian folklore, for instance, zombies do not physically threaten people; rather, the threat comes from the voduon practice whereby the sorcerer (master) subjugates the individual by robbing the victim of free will, language and cognition. The zombie is enslaved."
— Justin D. Edwards, "Mapping Tropical Gothic in the Americas" in Tropical Gothic in Literature and Culture.
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melomancy · 3 months ago
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Kate Bush as the Sound Monster in Experiment IV (1986)
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hobgobknowsbest · 1 year ago
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kekwcomics · 2 years ago
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thisdarlingluna · 1 year ago
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A delightful couple of episodes and now I have a few things to check out.
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nazrigar · 1 month ago
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Dinovember 2024: Children of the Lizard King
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For Dinovember, a tribute to the one, and only, Tyrannosaurus rex.
A creature whose impact on pop culture is SO prevalent, it's basically an ambassador species to the field of Paleontology.
From King Kong, to The Land before Time, to Jurassic Park, to Prehistoric Planet, there has been SO many interpretations of the dinosaur, and creatures that took influence FROM Tyrannosaurus rex, I could have filled the entire page with more, but I had to stop at 65 so that the flow and composition of the piece would work.
See if your favorite T.rex or T.rex inspired critter is here!
And of course, a special shout out to @tyrantisterror , whose big green fella up top helped inspire me to continue doing art!
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zombiekitty33 · 1 year ago
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half life fanartist late to half life anniversary millions dead
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flingmetothemoon · 2 months ago
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Exploring around New Orleans on a frightful Halloween night, Countess Marya Zaleska runs into a ghost attempting to frighten her, but their efforts cutely backfires as the Countess of love and atonement boops it's nonexistent nose and flusters it so much it poofs out of existence
Comic inspiration: Today is Halloween and I had ponders on how Marya would spend the Halloween night, and I make up cuter origins of ghosts. I thought if not a small creature getting tangled up in a white sheet from the laundry hanger, what if instead of dead people passing on to the afterlife to haunt those who remain living, ghosts are more like crystalized wind creatures that camouflages like chameleons and glows light like fireflies?
Also ghosts go by they/them pronouns because they don't grasp the concept of gender in my imaginary word XD
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end-of-xistence · 23 days ago
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MONSTER ENERGY GRAPHICS X3
Not mine, if you are the owner please ask if you would like credit/removal
Feel free to use!!
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tea-n-ink · 7 months ago
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Homesickness is where the heart is
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s0fter-sin · 8 months ago
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mermay idea
mers keep their faces covered as a way to indicate social status and familiarity. warriors have intricate masks, handcrafted when they win their first battle and the more detailed a mask is, the more accomplished the wearer is. they're rarely shed and are only taken off for their closest kin and mates
warrior bull shark mer!soap seeing human!ghost, seeing his skull mask and immediately knowing he's a high ranking warrior; one to be feared going off the numerous scars covering his body
an ideal and worthy mate, so long as he can prove his prowess
so he follows him as he's deployed on a mission near the ocean and is smitten when he sees how ruthless and capable he is; bathing himself in his enemies blood. he keeps his distance, not wanting to tempt fate but ghost spies the tip of his fin cutting through the water
and he's nothing if not an opportunist; kicking the bodies off the pier to the waiting jaws below
but soap? all he sees is the first step in a courting ritual
and he has to come up with something truly brilliant to match such a glorious offering
on ghost's part, it's been difficult getting people to understand the depths of his dependence on his mask. price thinks it's something to overcome, gaz and other soldiers just think it's an accessory to help with intimidation
the few partners he's tried to have thought he was someone to "fix"; nothing more than an object, a notch on their belt to prove how "good" of a partner they were to put in so much work to make him better. it always leaves him feeling violated, more so than if they'd just taken his mask off outright. one night stands were hardly worth it either; scratching a physical itch but falling so short of the intimacy and connection he craves that he feels worse off than he'd started
when he finally meets the mer that's been hunting him across the country, sees the bright red mask so artfully hewn and attached to his face?
it's like looking at a reflection of himself
he might have finally found the understanding he's been searching for
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melomancy · 2 months ago
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Kate Bush on the set of The Line, The Cross, and The Curve (1993)
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hobgobknowsbest · 1 year ago
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